If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Wild elephant encounters and ancient royal palaces are just some of the highlights of cycling through Sri Lanka, as Fiona Harper discovers.

Some of these tusks could reach over nine feet long ... one of the most common fossil pachyderms was the straight-tusked elephant Palaeoloxodon. The straight-tusked elephants were big.

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Hundreds of years ago, the Eastern Cape was full of elephants. By 1931, there were only 11 left. Now their numbers are ...

In a freakishly brutal turn of events straight out of a nightmare, one person has died and five others were left battered ...

He marched clear around the water with his head held high, back arched, straight toward ... is missing his right tusk, tries to push other bulls around. Susan McConnell Elephant family groups ...

Unlike most mammals, elephant leg bones grow straight down from the shoulder or hip ... further highlighting elephants’ remarkable cognitive evolution. An elephant’s tusks are actually modified ...

Ivoryton earned its name from the piano key manufacturing that once dominated the village. The Comstock, Cheney & Company factory processed elephant tusks for piano keys and billiard balls, becoming ...